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General Discussion To Gateway To Airguns => The Shop => : Sniperdad69 November 25, 2009, 10:14:53 AM
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A week before LASSO, "J" asked me to make him a light stock for his Gargoyle with the 40 inch barrel.
He needed it light enough to shoot at LASSO, 10.5 pounds was the weight limit.
No problem I told him, how heavy is it now?
"17 pounds", LOL.
What!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, you need me to make it under 11pounds? you need to loose over 6 pounds from this?
Yes please.
Those of you that know me, already know that I am nuts, but this was certainly starting to look way past nuts, even for me.
I start cutting into an old BAM26-2 stock that I had laying around, and knew it was light wood.
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I was getting close to cutting a stock that weight in, under a pound, and feeling good about it, then "J" said, Did I mention that I need this But pad on that, and it weighs 4 ounces.
"HU"
OK, back to the cutting block.
These next photos were when I thought I was done,but I was still over weight at this point.
I will post more soon, I finally got it down to 10 ounces of wood, and a 3 ounce pad,
so well under a pound for a stock to hold a 40inch barrel pushing 700FPE.
How would it hold up for the competition?
Cheers, David.
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Wow! Looks beautiful, fragile, but beautiful!
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Very Very nice really different to get a stock down that much in the weight needed is a real challenge. and it looks good too. Howie
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THAT'S A REAL STOCK MODIFICATION... SUPER.... SUPER.... AWSOME /// GERALD
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Abstract, very abstract. Sould be in a Art Show.
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Very nice work!
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Nows thats a stock....I like it when people
don't follow the pack.......And come up with something
a bit diffrent by thinking out side the box....
Great really great.......
Pete
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That is amazing, how did it hold up?
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It looks a little odd, but when brought to the shoulder, she held on target like a charm.
Untll the cross wind picked up, LOl.
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Now that's a barrel! OMG!
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With a barrel that lone you only need to be like 3 inches from the target, LOL howie
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WOW David!! That is just over the top Buddy!! I had talked with J about your project for him. I really wondered how you were gonna pull it off!!(http://../jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-surprised.gif) AWESOME JOB David!!(http://../jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-cool.gif)Tim. PS,,,, anytime Ya want to visit SC,,,,, I got a room for Ya,,,,,, bring your "Carving Tools"!! LOL!!
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WOW, I love it !!!!
I would just like a little more fore end on her !!!!
But Jay doesn't seem to be having any trouble in that department :-)
GO GUYS !!!!!
Bill
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That truly is a amazing piece of work, with as much weight as you had to take off you still managed to make the stock look cool and functional to boot- you are a exceptionally talented wood worker.
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That's got some fine lines to it now, great work and I see "j" likes it.:) Ed